Projects tagged "installation"

Conscious Lee
Practitioner:
Bog Fingers, student group in MTU's Creativity and Change course
Date:
Apr 2 2021
Conscious Lee is a public awareness project to help people value and protect their rivers. Rivers are rich sources of life and are vital for clean water. They are beautiful spaces to connect with nature. We all need to appreciate our rivers. We can all help river wildlife and protect this natural amenity for future generations.
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Work of Chinese Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei in Princeton
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Jan 23 2013
Work of Chinese Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei in Princeton Posted on January 24, 2013 By Susan Wallner State of the Arts
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Freedom of Information
Practitioner:
IOANA (Ioana Urma)
Date:
Jul 28 2012
Located within Boston’s historic (brick) core, and using the history of Boston as example, this kinetic, site-specific, public art installation is a humorous commentary on our use and trust of the internet for learning.
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My Model Body
Practitioner:
IOANA (Ioana Urma)
Date:
Apr 7 2013
The humorously critical project offered people an opportunity to compare themselves to the supermodel silhouette: face to face in the imaginary impression of a mirror, or at real physical scale. The idea was born out of a serious concern with the publicized woman's body - our social obsession with thin ideals - that falls nowhere close to average or, for the majority of the population, healthy.
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The Freedom Trail on Trial
Practitioner:
Urbano Project
Date:
Nov 20 2011
In the fall of 2011, Urbano’s teen artists and artist-in-residence Neil Horsky partnered with professional artists, educators, librarians, and historians to undertake a critical investigation of Boston’s Freedom Trail.  During the investigative process teen artists questioned the assumptions, accuracy, comprehensiveness, and impartiality of public presentations of the city’s
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Disability Rights Activist & Artist Liz Crow Stages "Bedding Out"
Practitioner:
Liz Crow
Date:
Apr 10 2013
Artist and disability rights activist Liz Crow has produced another iteration of her long-standing performance project, “Bedding Out.” In an attempt to bridge the divide between her private and public lives, she invited the world to witness the way she exists in the privacy of her own bed. Staged at the Salisbury Arts Centre just outside of London, visitors could watch Crow as she lives in an installed bedroom for 48 hours straight.
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Dharavi Biennale
Practitioner:
Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA)
Date:
Feb 17 2015
Dharavi Biennale 
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Ostrich
Practitioner:
IOANA (Ioana Urma)
Date:
Jul 27 2013
This interactive, site-specific project is a comment on how we - constantly attached to mobile devices - neglect to observe the environment around us. Like ostriches, we willingly trap our heads, minds, and imagination in a fantasy world that is detached from reality. Three colorful fabric tunnels span a man-made grove of Elm trees in downtown Boston, defining an intimate courtyard where nature clashes with cartoonish representation.
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